Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

armies, heroes have gone, the taps
have sounded over the unre-
bsponsive ears of Washington aud
Hamilton, Jackson and Harrison, Scott
and Taylor, Lee and Grant, and the vet.
eran who knew or might have known
these heroes and heard from their lips
the naErstives of 100 years of American
seEort and endeaVor, still lives, in the IN
faded vigor of Old age, with pulse sc
clear and quick as when it beat to the
canon of BladensbuTg over seventy years
ago. Surely he is one Of the most blessed
of men, and not tie least among those
! blessings is to see his children tread IL
his footsteps and follow him in the coUn-
ellis of the nations
It is not amiss thus to write of Simon
Cameron in q Sketch oEhis son. Thinking
of one, the thought of tie other comes
.involuntarily I'd your mind. You could
not find two b en- more alike in their
tastes a1d nataTes than.sshis father and
son. And fntheir haaeIife tits is as
c0nspicuousSs III pu blies The home jbf
Don Cameron almost as snheh BIS
father,ssGs his ON There is. as Muchsin
it tesEenind yoH p one IS of the otAaR
saSh ssare ~ waYsi Kept ia feadf-
ness for the resfgcd tssaah. st
The resideAas OF che sGamerons is 8
quaint old BnaAsfon onL lafayette square,
just across way from one of the hand
somest OF the mary well kept parks of
Washington. The Situation is a delight
fUI one. Within asstone's throw is the
Waite House and .the Treasury Depart
raelt, while between the two, further in
the background the Washington monu-
nent looms ipAD view. Back of this is
fhe Potomac lined with its grand hills
BOW clotheA in the greenest verdure.
For milessHais stretches away from you
an6chsA Clear day the spires of sleepy
old Alexandria can be seen, making in it's
entirety picture that appeals strongly
to ones love of the beautiful. Grouped
around the mansion are the residences of
many distinguished men. Around the
corner lives Chief-Justice Waite, up the
street are the old homes of James G..
Blaine, Hamilton Fish and Governor
Swan, while across the park you can
see the houses of George Bancroft,
W. w. Coreorsn, John Hay and the old
home of Oliver P. Morton. The adioin-
ing house is the old Seward mansion, in
the portico of which General Daniel E.
Sickles shot and killed Phillip Barton
Key, the poet.
The house itself is rather peculiar
looking structure, and is certainly notice
able, for you would hardly find another
like it in this or any other country.
It's style OF architecture would
BE difficult to determine; I think
myself it has none. Originally one
Of those big, ugly sturdy mansions built
in the early days Of the republic, it has
within the last few years lost its person
atty if the word nay be used in speaking
of house. 1t was erected during the
administration of President Monroe By
his friend Ogle Taylae, Virginian by
birth and q gentleman of great elegance
and hospitality. He entertained lsvishly
and spent his large fortune with
q generous hand. Presidents, princes,
poets, artists; the talented and great of
the Continent were his guests and many
men now living talk glowingly of dinner
and rout and ball they have attended
within the walls of the old mansion. Mr..
Tayloe died during the administration
Of President Pierce and the house was
for time deserted. During the war,
however, it was again occupied,
this time by General McClelland as
MS headquarters while in command Of